Last night i left a little rant about how #Duolingo 's lack of explanations for anything made it impossible to derive when or why you'd use some observable rules AND that it made it impossible to know if it the sentence was correct or an AI generated fuck-up.
It was Perfect fodder for "reply guys", but instead 2 folks showed why i love #Esperanto They stepped up helped. One dug out a helpful link, another explained things in detail that took time.
@number6 Yeah, i've got lots of resources where i can get help. There's a subreddit and a stack exchange for Esperanto & probably many mailing lists and other things. There's even an esperanto mastodon host ( https://esperanto.masto.host )
My concern is more that it's not JUST missing key information, but that I ALSO don't trust that it's giving me valid examples anymore. Without the grammar material i have no way to confirm or deny any of my suspicions without going elsewhere.
I'm seriously thinking about quitting Duolingo, because the more advanced the conjugations get the less clue i have what the fuck is going on because they literally Never explain Anything.
Ex. In #Esperanto "el" means "from" & "de" means "of"
I came FROM the United States
Mi venis EL Usono.
The House OF Usher
La domo DE Usher.
and yet, it's insisting that when you go FROM France to Germany it's
@jrdnzr@masukomi
Also once you've got the basics of grammar from Lernu and are actually at the stage of being able to read Esperanto, there is PMEG https://bertilow.com/pmeg/
@movation I feel bad that one of the first things to go is my ability to calmly deal with the pets being demanding. They don't deserve me getting short with them because i literally can't deal. :(
Wifey got me some surprise watermelon 🍉 as a treat. I was craving something fresh and sweet this morning, so i grabbed it from the fridge, and this happened…
I'll have been a Patreon support of Greg (the guy behind #iTerm2 ) for years now. I've cancelled that, and will probably be switching to Kitty. I downloaded Kitty a while ago but realized that switching to a different terminal would require a bunch of changes and / or configuration stuff. I don't remember the details, but mostly it was "i don't feel like bothering just to get better responsiveness"
Iterm2 added an AI integration which is kinda-sorta optional.
It theoretically doesn't send anything to OpenAI unless you give it a key, BUT because the integration exists & was added without consent or warning it could be activated without consent.
Kinda impressive issue with many people actually signing up for GitLab accounts specifically so that they could say they wanted it removed ,or at least an optional plugin.
It is hard to see in photographs because of the reflection on the water, but some thing has been making wide trails through the silt in our pond. This is about 10 inches wide (25cm) and there are no obvious footprints or flipper prints or claw prints.
Any guesses as to what this might be?
On a related note, I believe that there are crabs in our local water system. I found a crab claw in the grass that some had eaten. I am guessing maybe one of the Great Blue Herons had a successful hunt.